This is the first example of live birth. The species is an hunting aquatic reptile that shared the seas with Dinosaurs. Plesiosaur gave live birth to young ones, much like mammals, rather than by laying eggs like many reptiles.

According to CERN physicist Hajdakovic, there is no need of dark matter to explain observations, if you assume that matter and anti-matter particles gravitationally repel. So, dark matter may be an illusion.

The spectacular Perseid meteor shower is due this Friday night continuing on to early Saturday morning. Make sure that you catch this cosmic show. You can always make up for lost sleep during the weekends.

Confirmed evidence of life-building materials have been found on meteors, lending support to the hypothesis that life may have been planted here on Earth from some extra-terrestrial sources via meteorites. Is Panspermia the next big thing in biology?

The largest solar flare this solar cycle has been observed today. It was big enough to blackout many high-frequency communication channels on the sunlit side of the Earth. The Solar cycle will culminate in another 2 years.

The second nuclear bomb attack confirmed that man was not afraid to do the worst to his own kind. This day, in 1945, the world witnessed the bombing of Nagasaki, after Hiroshima was bombed just three days back. Change was global and innocence was the first victim.

The early Earth might have had two moons, the smaller of which had collided with the larger one, forming the moon we see today. Had the Earth been habitable, full moon nights would have been so much more romantic.

Molecular Oxygen has been discovered by the Hershel Telescope in the Orion Nebula. Till now, only atomic oxygen had been known! How did the discovery happen? And no, it doesn’t say anything about the existence of life!